Fly tying



June M. w. REICHENSTEIN El AL 2,120,571

FLY TYING Filed April 21, 19s? Nam/l: W.

Pam/grann Ruiz/EL E) Hill Patented June 14, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE FLY TYING Morris W. Reichenstein and Roy F. 101105,

Akron, Ohio Application April 21, 1937, Serial No. 138,213

2 Claims.

vide such equipment so that it may readily be.

adjusted for use by either right or left-handed persons and so that thesupplies for the operations 15 are readily accessible to either right orlefthanded persons.

The foregoing and other purposes of the invention are attained in thefly-making equipment illustrated in the accompanying drawing and 20described below. It is to be understood that the invention is notlimited to the specific form thereof shown and described.

Of the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a fly-making equip- 25 ment which embodiesthe invention.

Figure 2 is a front elevation thereof.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral Ill designates a suitable base atthe front of which is arranged a standard H. The standard ll is 30preferably so secured to base III as by nuts I2 and i3 threaded onto thebottom thereof respectively above and below the base that the standardll may be turned to various angular positions by loosening the nuts 12and I3 and secured in 35 difierent angular positions for a purpose to beexplained.

The standard H is preferably constructed in two parts comprising a lowersocket member H slidably but non-rotatably receiving the reduced 40 endof an upper standard member I I whereby the upper part of the standardmay be removed from the lower to facilitate shipping of the equipment ina compact package. The upper standard member il may have a reduced upper45 end M over which may be placed a spool is of fiy-tylng thread.

Secured to the upper standard member it is an arm it which may bebifurcated at its outer end as at it, it to provide yieldable clamp mem-50 bars having jaws l'i, I1 arranged to be tightened upon or loosenedfrom the work by means of a bolt is extending through the bifurcationsit and having a clamp-operating thumb-nut is threaded thereon. The upperportion H of the -55 standard may also have a hook 2i) or other suitablesupport thereon to hold a pair of scissors 2| in a convenient positionfor use in cutting fiy-tying thread during the operations of tying flieson the equipment.

The bifurcations It may be rounded as at It;

Mi to provide an aperture through which the bottom of a post 22 may beextended whereby the post 22 may be removably secured, if desired, onthe clamp by means of a nut 23. The post may support by a universaljoint 24 an arm 25 'to which by a universal joint 26is secured a glassor lens 21 for use to magnify the work facilitate fiy-tying operations.

By adjustably attaching standard II to the base, arm l5 may be securedin positions extend- 5 ing either to the right of the front of theequipment (as shown) or to the left whereby the equipment can beadjusted for use by either right or left-handed persons. The arm i5 canbe set at any desired angle most convenient to the person using theequipment.

0n the base 90 at the front thereof, there may be arranged a pin 28 forremovably supporting another spool 29 of the same or a different threadthan spool 54, and also there may be provided a receptacle 30 for apiece or lump of wax 32' used for waxing the thread as will beunderstood by skilled artisans.

Rearwardly of the base from the standard ll there is provided a casingII for one or more 30 drawers 32, 32, the right and left ends of thecasing being open so that the drawers may be pushed out of either end byan operator. An operator may, if right-handed, push the drawers out ofthe right end of the casing (as indicated 35 in the drawing) by pushingon the left ends of the drawers with the left hand, and a left-handedoperator may push on the right ends of the drawers with the right handto push the left ends of the drawers out of the casing. The drawers maycontain feathers, squirrel tail and other materials such as are used forconstructing flies.

On top of the casing 3| there are shown several containers 33, 33. Thesemay have transparent tops as indicated and may be used to hold suppliesof fish hooks 34, 3d of various sizes and typ s.

Rearwardly of easing 3|, on base I0, there may be provided a receptacle35 for finished flies.

This may be transparent or may have a transparent top. At either side ofreceptacle 35 there may be transparent containers 36 and 31 for tools orappliances. One of these may contain an ordinary pair of tweezers (notshown) and the other an ordinary spring clamp such as shown atpollflonthemollteddeiotpldbue for me mm I m m 4 mmmm wmm mmmm m M m mm mm m x m fi m m m m Wwmmm mm m. m wmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmm "m m M w Mam m mmmmmmmm WWW mmm WW m mam wmmmwmmm m m w m m mm mmmmm mm m mm w m w mmnmmmm m wm mm mmmm m m w whmm mmm mm ummmm "tl'aeereinomlthgnun,

